Quote #141
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
More from Michel de Montaigne
- We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
- Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
- We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
- Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, research is the means of all learning, and ignorance is the end.
- Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
- Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
- 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
- Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.